"Don't apologize for what someone else has done to you. I wasn't bothered, I was tempted to bite," D explained.

It was best that Luke knew what he was cuddling up against, after all. D wouldn't blame him if he changed his mind, though he found the thought of the young man leaving to be oddly distressing.

Normally D would just remove himself from the situation, or forcibly keep himself under control. Asking people to keep their necks covered for his own weakness wasn't a solution, but at the moment his control wasn't as strong as it normally was.